Improvement in medical compounds for treating hogs



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIcE.

JOHN SHANNON, OF PALMYRA, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS FOR TREATING HOGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,492, dated April 9,1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved Medical Compound, invented by JOHN SHAN- NON, of Palmyra, in the county of Marion and State of Missouri.

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved medical compound for hogs; and it consists in the compound formed of the ingredients in the proportions hereinafter described. y

In preparing this compound I take sulphur, four hundred and twenty-six and two-thirds grains; copperas, four hundred and twenty-six and two-thirds grains; alum, four hundredand twenty-six and two-thirds grains; saltpcter, two hundred and thirteen and one-third grains; resin, two hundred and thirteen and one-third grains; fenug'reek, two hundred and thirteen and one-third grains; precipitate sulphur of antimony, one hundred and six and two-thirds grains; assa-t'tetida, one hundred and six and two-thirds grains; soot, fourteen 

